[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r65099 - python/trunk/Doc/library/string.rst (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Fri Jul 18 21:38:46 CEST 2008

Eric Smith schrieb:

georg.brandl wrote:

Author: georg.brandl Date: Fri Jul 18 13:15:06 2008 New Revision: 65099

Log: Document the different meaning of precision for {:f} and {:g}. Also document how inf and nan are formatted. #3404. Thanks for doing this. But see this output: http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/sparc%20solaris10%20gcc%20trunk/builds/255/step-test/0 which shows that on Solaris with gcc it's 'NaN', not 'nan'. This is one of the reasons I didn't get into documenting it. And on Windows, it's even worse (no Windows box handy, sorry).

I see.

Do we want to document the actual behavior, or do we want to normalize all platforms so that they all return 'nan' and 'inf'?

I'd find a consistent behavior nice, if it isn't too much work to get one.

Georg

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